#captainsaurus

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“The tenderness with which I love you is unmatched.”

– Marina Tsvetaeva, "As Unforgettable as You’re Forgetful," Moscow in the Plague Years: Poems

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“If I have learned anything in this long life of mine, it is this: in love, we find out who we want to be; in war, we find out who we are.”

– Kristin Hannah, The Nightingale

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“There is a love for which there is everything: meetings, hands, drinking tea together. You part, and it passes, but you can't live half a day without being together.”

– Nikolay Punin, The Diaries of Nikolay Punin: 1904 - 1953

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“In front of my mother and my sisters, I pretend love is cheap and vulgar. I act like it's a sin—I pretend that love is for women on a dark path. But at night I dream of a love so heavy it makes my spine throb—I dream up a lover who makes love like he is separating salt from water.”

– Salma Deera, "Salt"

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“I would like to sit with you, and hear soft music intensely and persuasively flow.… I would like to hear you talking of simple things, of the leaves that hang on trees and softly fall: I would like to have your hands touch mine like wings.”

– Conrad Aiken, “Sonata In Pathos”

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“I found you without looking, and love you without trying.”

– Mark Anthony

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“He was pointing at the moon, but I was looking at his hand.”

– Richard Siken, "Anyway"

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“If you do not write your book, the result is simple: you are cursed to see fragments of it everywhere, piecemeal, for the rest of your life.”

– Bernard T. Joy